Imovie 3 crops imported still photos

I'm trying to make a slide show of still images. Imovie 3 crops my imported photos (NOT from iphoto) to fit screen, instead of shrinking photos to fit. How to correct? Thanks.

Thanks, everyone. Ken Burns WAS off; I ended up just re-sizing my images in photoshop before importing.
BUT whether I import via iPhoto or just from my desktop, the images are really pixelated when played back on Quicktime player. Will it look different after burning to DVD? The images are 1280 x 960, 150dpi. And BTW, you DO need to embed a color profile, at least in this experience.
Thanks again.

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Hello all. iMovie is acting very ornery, and I need help -- or I'll never get my 2011 slideshow completed in time!
I am trying to import several still photos into my movie project. In the past, I have simply dragged and dropped the appropriate photos from the iMovie photo browser into my project. Everything works — the way it should be with Apple products.
Suddenly, iMovie doesn't want to play nice. No matter what photos I drag into the timeline, iMovie inserts multiple copies of one of the video clips that's already in my movie. The photos don't show up. If I play the movie, I get a blank screen where the photo/video should be.
Is anyone else experiencing this probem? Is there an easy way to fix it?
The following picture and text should help explain what I'm doing:
Here are the steps I'm taking:
1. I select one or several photos from the iMovie photo viewer (on the bottom right-hand side of the window.) -- In this case, I've selected 10 very different photos.
2. I drag the photos into the project.
3. iMovie appears to import the photos.
4. I see 10 identical thumbnails in my project. They appear to be the same as the very last video clip in the project. However, when I scrub these thumbnails, or play the movie, I see a black screen.
I've tried dragging the photos directly from iPhoto, or from the desktop, and still the same thing happens.
HELP!
Dave

Thanks wesehrt. I had one jpeg such as "ALL_CAPS.jpeg" --- straight from my iPhone, imported/tweaked in Aperture no less ... and renamed it without the underscore and it worked.
But I wasn't getting multiple copies or black screens. The image would import and I'd see the thumbnail in the project timeline, but what actually rendered was the last frame of the preceding video clip.
Bizarre bugs with photos importation here.

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I am trying to find a way to import a photo (jpeg or tiff) and having it fills up
the 16:9 screen. I even tried sizing up the photo in photoshop but it would
still not fill up the whole 16:9 screen. Any help would be appreciated.
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I ran into the inverse problem only it was limited to a subset of the pictures. All the pictures where 1080 high, and in their original aspect ratios, lower than 16 x 9. Most of them were just presented in their correct aspect ratios, but the subset was stretched to fit the entire 1920 x 1080 frame.
First I checked the manual and noticed that this behavior contradicts what the manual says the software will do. I then noticed that all the pictures that prompted the erroneous stretching behavior were 4 x 3, 1440 x 1080, so I tried first extending the canvas with black fill to change the aspect ratio. That didn't work even when I matched the aspect ratio of pictures that did not evoke this behavior. I then tried cropping to get close to the portrait mode pictures that never had the problem.
None of the above worked, so I resorted to extending the canvas of all the originally 4 x 3 pictures to 1920 x 1080 by extending the canvas horizontally in photoshop. As wasteful as that is, it worked. On the plus side, JPEG should be pretty efficient at encoding pure black.
It sure would be easier if the software did what the manual says.
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I recently purchased a ContourROAM camera with the intention of creating some time lapse videos while on bike rides. Did my first ride with the camera, set to 6 pics every 1min, and captured 830 some-odd photos on my ride. Got home, uploaded them to Aperture and opened up iMovie. When I tried to drag all 830 photos from the media viewer over to the project, it only imported 170 photos. Tried it multiple times with the same result.
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Btw, I did solve this issue by directly importing the photos off the camera card to iMovie... however it would sure be nice if Aperture and iMovie would play nicely together.

I would suggest creating an album in Aperture containing the photos in the order you want them. Then in iMovie, open the Photo Browser to Aperture and drag in the icon for the Album.
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iMovie ... which I have difficulties recording with ... for me it quits too soon...maybe I'm not being loud enough..maybe my movies are too long and I'm running out of ram. I don't know.
QuickTime Pro works pretty good to record sound using your computer's internal mike
Garageband does a pretty good job of processing the voice by way of recording through the internal mike. That's what I've been using nowadays because it sounds so much better than iMovie or QTPro. Then you export it to iTunes then import it into iMovie. Real easy. It's a snap to do. Since you are wanting to record a cassette tape, I'd try all three ways to see if they do the job. If so, good. If not there are other kinds of ways to capture the sound. But then you go to the Garageband threads and see what's what there. One way or another, you'll get it. Maybe not instantly, but you will get it.
Again it's all experimental and how professional you want to be. Recording from you computer is not at all going to give a professional result. Especially of a cassette tape, because it can pick up the sound of the machine playing the tape. But, if you want to make a memory movie, it barely makes do. Making do isn't always the best way to go. But might be the only way you can go because of other limitations...of which I have plenty.
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See this user tip by AppleMan1958 here:
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But once you go to the next photo to pull it in and get on with your project you find that you are pulling in multiple copies of the same picture as the one
you just pulled in.
This same problem occurs if you attempt to import using the Media Browser, and as an interesting footnote, the Media Browser window has a drop down
list. When you click each of your different file names, there it is - the same picture. I've invested 1.5 hours in attempting to find a work-around by importing, renaming, saving, right-clicking, using context menus - everything my 43 years of computer use can muster - but still no luck.
The last time that I created a project similar to this (a mix of video and stills) it worked just fine so that is even more of a head-scratcher for me.
I even went back and re-imported the pics that worked fine into the project that I am struggling with and they came in fine - no duplication. But vacation pics are the only copies I have and I just need to import these 20 shots and get to work on them.
I would be willing to let someone get my IP address and connect directly like my IT folks at work do so they could see what is going on with this.
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